This book uncovers an early collection of sayings, called N, that are ascribed to Jesus and are similar to those found in the Gospel of Thomas and in Q, a document believed to be a common source, with Mark, for Matthew and Luke. In the process, the book sheds light on the literary methods of Mark and Thomas. A literary comparison of the texts of the sayings of Jesus that appear in both Mark and Thomas shows that each adapted an earlier collection for his own purpose. Neither Mark nor Thomas consistently gives the original or earliest form of the shared sayings; hence, Horman states, each used and adapted an earlier source. Close verbal parallels between the versions in Mark and Thomas show that the source was written in Greek. Horman's conclusion is that this common source is N. This proposal is new, and has implications for life of Jesus research. Previous research on sayings attributed to Jesus has treated Thomas in one of two ways: either as an independent stream of Jesus sayings written without knowledge of the New Testament Gospels and or as a later piece of pseudo-Scripture that uses the New Testament as source. This book rejects both views.
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Contents 6
- Preface 8
- Introduction 10
- N: A NEW GREEK SOURCE 18
- The Scope of N 20
- The Sayings Common to Mark and Thomas 32
- N 2:19 The Bridegroom and the Bridechamber 32
- N 2:21 Old and New 39
- N 3:27 Binding the Strong Person 47
- N 3:28 Speaking against the Holy Spirit 51
- N 3:31 Jesus’s Mother and Brothers 56
- N 4:3 The Sower 62
- N 4:9 Whoever Has Ears 73
- N 4:11 Mystery 75
- N 4:21 A Lamp under a Storage Vessel 76
- N 4:22 What Is Hidden Will Be Revealed 80
- N 4:25 Whoever Has Will Receive 85
- N 4:29 When the Fruit Ripens 88
- N 4:30 A Mustard Seed 91
- N 6:4 A Prophet Is Not Received 97
- N 7:15 What Goes into the Mouth 101
- N 8:27 What Am I Like? 106
- N 8:34 Carry One’s Cross 107
- N 9:1 Tasting Death 108
- N 10:15 Become as a Child 109
- N 10:31 The First and the Last 113
- N 11:23 Moving a Mountain 115
- N 12:1 The Vineyard Owner and the Sharecroppers 119
- N 12:10 The Stone That the Builders Rejected 129
- N 12:13 Taxes to Caesar 133
- N 13:31 Heaven Will Pass Away 140
- N 14:58 I Will Destroy This House 141
- Other Candidates for N 144
- The Setting of N in Early Christianity 152
- Conclusions 160
- EXCURSUS 164
- Excursus 1: Sayings of Jesus and Narrative about Jesus in the Early Church 166
- Excursus 2: Esoteric and Exoteric Sayings and Settings in Mark 182
- Excursus 3: Narrative Frameworks for Sayings in Mark 188
- Excursus 4: Structural Markers Indicating the Use of Sources in Thomas 202
- Excursus 5: Thomas and the “Gnostics” 214
- Notes 224
- Bibliography 250
- Indexes 258
- Text 258
- Nag Hammadi 258
- Scriptures 259
- Subject 261
- A 261
- B 261
- C 262
- D 262
- E 262
- F 262
- G 262
- H 262
- I 262
- J 262
- K 263
- L 263
- M 263
- N 263
- O 263
- P 263
- Q 263
- R 263
- S 264
- T 264
- U 264
- V 264
- W 264
- Z 264
- Greek 264
- Coptic 264
